noun
- a garment, especially an outer garment.
- vestments, Chiefly Literary. attire; clothing.
- an official or ceremonial robe.
- Ecclesiastical.
- one of the garments worn by the clergy and their assistants, choristers, etc., during divine service and on other occasions.
- one of the garments worn by the celebrant, deacon, and subdeacon during the celebration of the Eucharist.
- something that clothes or covers like a garment: a mountaintop with a vestment of clouds.
noun
- a garment or robe, esp one denoting office, authority, or rank
- any of various ceremonial garments worn by the clergy at religious services
c.1300, from Old French vestment (French vĂȘtement), from Latin vestimentum “clothing, clothes,” from vestire “to clothe” (see wear).